Cheats have been around as long as video games themselves. Here are the 15 most famous cheats in video games.

Back in the day, cheats were very commonplace in video games. Codes and inputs could dramatically change the way that certain games played. Some of these broke the games while others were just fun to toy around with. Here are the 15 most famous video game cheats.

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Konami Code

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start. This is the sequence that could be entered at the beginning of every single Konami game to give the player extra lives. While it isn’t in circulation these days it still lives on as a cheat that every gamer worth his controller knows.